Where is Daniela Hillers' Book?

UPDATE: It's on its way!

UPDATE: Lo and behold, just hours after I posted this, I got a notice that my order of the book, No. 170, has just been shipped. Yee-haw! I’ll let you know as soon as it arrives!

Daniela Hillers announced the “publication” of her book on the Söring case on social media on March 1, 2024. At that time, the book was listed on German Amazon as being available for €25 and being 600 pages (!) long. You could at least pre-order it. Then the page count was dropped to 576 pages for some unknown reason. And now, the book is listed as “currently unavailable”. This is despite the fact that on 18 April 2024 — 6 weeks after the “publication date” — she announced, in a rambling Facebook post, that the book could now be ordered “on all channels” (presumably outlets) and was currently “being delivered” (“in Auslieferung”).

And 2 days after this announcement, the book is no longer available on Amazon.

The book still has only one review, a one-star review posted on October 26, 2023 from a “Kindle Customer” who calls the book a “mass of contradictions, lies, and inconsistencies”. Apparently a Kindle version of some version of the book was available at some time on Amazon, but that’s no longer the case. The fact that the book was then de-listed from Amazon at some point meant that no more reviews could be posted, so the book has sat there for 6 months with one extremely negative review. I pre-ordered the book late last year and am still waiting.

People have gotten in touch to tell me they have complained to Gallip Verlag about the delay in receiving the book and have been told it’s “being printed” and the process of shipping it out has just begun. But where’s the electronic version which, to go from Amazon, must have existed for some time? Heck, many books are never published on paper these days. It takes almost no effort at all to convert a manuscript into an E-book which you can release immediately on Kindle and begin earning from. Heck, Amazon even released a program called Kindle Create which helps you do just that.

Hillers’ plaintive Facebook post from April 18 contains much conspiracy theorizing about some sort of hidden “minority” of actors who are engaging in devious “Cancel Culture” tactics to try to discredit Hillers because she’s a woman and she’s challenging the “existing narrative”. I have no idea what she’s talking about, but given the paranoid tone (and ghastly style) of her Facebook post, it doesn’t sound like things are going smoothly behind the scenes.

In any case, Hillers now resembles the Simpsons:

She pretty much has to bring something out now. I spent €22, and I intend to make sure I get my money’s worth or my money back. If the miraculous happens and an actual 576-page tome arrives at Casa Hammel, I’ll have a thorough review here in some format or other. Stay tuned!